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is a collection of wireless mobile hosts forming atemporary network without the aid of any centralized administration orstandard support services regularly available on the wide-area network towhich the hosts may normally be connected.

2. Conventional Routing Solutions

2.1 Description

Conventional routing protocols are based on either distance vector or linkstate algorithms.

In Distance Vector routing,each router maintains a table giving thedistance from itself to all possible destinations.

Ex.

The original routing protocol for the ARPANET, RIP (usedinparts of the Internet, in Novell's IPX, and in Xerox's XNS), and RTMP(used in AppleTalk).

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InLink State

routing, each router maintains a complete picture of thetopology of the entire network.